New School Will Open As Older Ones Face Their Fate

NEWS IN BRIEF

March 15, 1997

EUSTIS — The new Eustis Middle School being built east of town is nearly complete, and the Lake County School Board will tour the $12 million facility at 8 a.m. Monday.

If the School Board gives its approval after the tour, which is open to the public, teachers will move into the new school next week during spring break. Students will attend classes at the new school when spring break ends March 31.

The old middle school on Bates Avenue will be renovated and become an annex to crowded Eustis High School.

Also Monday, the School Board will meet at 10 a.m. at the school district office in Tavares to discuss long-range goals.

The meeting is the last before old buildings at Roseborough Elementary School in Mount Dora are to be razed. The demolition is scheduled to begin Friday.

Mount Dora city officials were in the midst of a fund-raising drive to save the buildings when the School Board decided this week to tear them down. City officials and members of the historical society still are looking for a way to stop the demolition.

However, School Board Chairman Tom Chapman said Friday that he does not anticipate any discussion of Roseborough during the School Board meetings Monday.